diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 04919ea2dd..09e4859c28 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun May  9 02:57:02 2010  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* ext/fiddle/lib/fiddle.rb: only require DL if it hasn't been required
+	  yet. [ruby-core:30095]
+
 Sun May  9 01:15:18 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* cont.c (stackgrowdirection): removed duplicated code, use
diff --git a/ext/fiddle/lib/fiddle.rb b/ext/fiddle/lib/fiddle.rb
index bc4017eee0..8b8c069b03 100644
--- a/ext/fiddle/lib/fiddle.rb
+++ b/ext/fiddle/lib/fiddle.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require 'fiddle.so'
 require 'fiddle/function'
 require 'fiddle/closure'
-require 'dl'
+require 'dl' unless Object.const_defined?(:DL)
 
 module Fiddle
   Pointer = DL::CPtr